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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Exercise Dependent

I think I'm going to write about fitness and my evolution regarding fitness here on Wednesdays.

I used to know a PE teacher. She was a cheerleader for a major, Pac-10 University, and made many appearances on ESPN making the #1 sign for the cameras.

She was also an athlete, with the abs and sculpted arms to prove it.

Lazy English majors like myself rarely encountered such folk, being too busy devouring plates of cheese fries and discussing the merits of The Naturalists. So, she was a delightful little foreign creature, like spending time with a Hobbit.

This reminds me of a commercial for something - where an obese man gets set up, steps on a scale, and then runs around a gym.

And then he steps on the scale again.

I'll admit that, whenever I get into a lull and stop working out for a little bit - "the burn" when you get back in is addicting. For, at least, two days. And I worry about being obsessed about exercise. And then it fades . . . especially if I don't actually work out, at all, during those two days...

I've missed you! I am glad to see you're not ED (whoops, that sounds funny, no?) ;) but I can get it, completely. I agree, I'm more cookie dependent, too.

And the overalls! Can you believe I wore them to WORK! WORK! I mean, I was just out of college, but OMG! Work! And a friend of mine? She wore them, too. We almost always ended up crashing into each other on the same day as twins. Overall twins. Sorry - I got distracted there. Overalls were great for hiding the impact of cookies, though. ;)

This is hilarious. Being from The South and all, I actually owned a pair of camouflaged overalls. My SIL used to embellish her own - with things like ducks holding sunflowers. It was a weird time, wasn't it?

Oh, and my mama was excercise dependant. We were never so different as during that phase. It was a really, really weird time for all of us.